JavaScript and JSON Essentials - Second Edition

Hosting JSON

In this section, we will be creating a node script that will allow us to send a JSON feedback to the user upon a successful request. Let's take a look at the app.js file that accomplishes this task:

const http = require('http');const port = 3300;http.createServer((req, res) => {    res.writeHead(200, {       "Content-Type": "application/json"    });    res.write(JSON.stringify({      greet : "Hello Readers!"    }));    res.end();}).listen(port);console.log(`Node Server is running on port : ${port}`)

The changes required to send JSON data are highlighted in the preceding snippet. The above script consists of a JSON object with greet as the key and Hello Readers! as the value. The object is first stringified as the responses provided are always in string ...